Garment-holder



. UNITED y STATES.

PATENT -rntcm .ALBERT L. LiNcoLN, oF BETHEL, VERMONT.

GARMEN'r-HOLDER.

l SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,335, `iat-.ec May 3,1898.

Application nea June 9,1897. sannita. 640,025. (No man.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, ALBERT L. LINCOLN, a'

citiren of the United States,residin g at Bethel,

inthe county of Windsor and State of Vermont, have invented a new andV useful Gar.- ment-Holder, of which the followingis a specibringing the garment into contact with the This invention relates to skirt or garment holders, its object being to prov-ide a simple,

cheap, and'eliicient device by means of which a skirt or similar garmentl may be securely held for the purpose of suspending it in stores, a wardrobe, closet,'or similar place without fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective yview of my improved holder and alsoa p0r- .tion of a skirt supported in the holder. Fig. 2 isa similar View of the holder, looking at the opposite side to that shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is' an end view. Fig. 4 is a vertical section through the coils and the plate in which the hook is'swiveled at the upper end of the holder.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the igures of the drawings.

The holder is formed from a single piece of i wire and is made in the following manner: Thepiece of wire about midway its length is bent to form a smalhcoil 1 and two larger coils 2, one on each side of the coil 1. The two portions of the wire then extend from the coils 2 at opposite sid'es toform the arms 3 and 4, which diverge slightly untillthey are bent to form the obtuse angles 5, which causes them to cross each other, as indicated at 6, and a short distance beyond where they cross they are bent to form the clamping-jaws 7 and 8, which both extend at substantially al 'right angle from opposite" sides of their re-y spective arms 3 and 4, so that thearins are connected to the vjaws about' lmidway the length of the latter. I

The jaw 7 is an open elongated link' and is formed -by bending the wire downwardly at an obtuse angle just below the crossiitgfpoint 6, as indicated at 9, then bending the wire at a right angle to extend laterally from the arm 3, and thenv making two return-bends 10 and 11 to bring the two sides of the link substantially parallel with each other with an open space between them. then bent tovform an eye 12, which embraces the lower end of1 the arm 3.' r

To form the jaw 8 the wire is bent inwardlyV The end of the wire is toward the jaw 7, as indicated'at 18, and is then bent in a manner similar-.to that in which the Wire of the jaw 7 is bent, except that the end 14 of the wire lies against the inturned end of the varm 4, and the link thus formed is not quite as wideas the link which forms'the jaw 7, but is somewhat longerin1order,that

its ends will project a short distance beyond the ends of the jaw 7 and engage-.them to prevent the jaws passing each other. The loop is then twisted in opposite directions on eachsideof the arml 4, asindicated at 15, and the jaw 8 is therefore in the form of a' twisteder corrugated bar and lies parallel to and in engagement with the jaw 7.

16 indicates a plate, which has its ends 17* bent to vembrace the upper 'portions of the coils 2 and' extends across vabove the coil 1.- A hook 18*v is swiveled in the plate A16, and its head 19 is supported on. the coil 1. The hook may therefore be freely turned in the .plate 16, but has little, if any, vertical movement therein.

From theforegoing description it will be seen that the coils 1 and 2 normally tend to force the jaws 7 and 8 into engagement with each other, but that theybeopened 4by applying pressure to the arms 3 and 4 between the coils 1 and 2 and the point 6, where they cross, to move them toward each other. Itis also obvious that on account of one jaw be-f Hsame time each jaw will presenta smooth 'engaging surface which will not in any mans l ner injure the garment.

It will be understood that changes in. the form, proportion, and the'minor-jietails of IOC ' as described.

construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having described the invention, Iclaim- A garment-holder,comprising two springactnated arms crossed near their lower ends, jaws-at the lower ends ofthe arms normally and yieldingly engaging each other, one of said jaws being` i'n the form of an open link andthe other consisting of a twisted or corrugated bar,'anda suspending device connected to the .upper end of the holder, substantially 2. A garment-holder formed of a single piece of Wire bent to form and comprising a series of coils, the middle coil being smaller than the' outer ones, arms exten ding from said coils and bent at an obtuse Aangle to cross each other, jaws extending laterally from thearms on opposite sides and normally engaging each other, one of said jaws being in the form of. an elongated open link and the other consistl ing of a twisted or corrugated bar of greater length than the link-jaw, substantially as described.

3. A garment-holder'formed of a single piece of w'ir'e bent to form, and comprising a series of coils at its upper end, the middle coil being smaller than the outer ones, arms extending from said coils and clamping-jaws at the lower ends of the arms, combined with a metal plate secured to the outer coils and extending across above the middle coil, and a hook swiveled in said plate` with its head supported on the middle coil, substantially as described. y

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I haver hereto aiiixed lmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT L. LINCOLN.

Witnesses:

S. C. CADY, E. M. WESTON. 

